In my company, in practice it means around 4 weeks with standard accrual. Had a coworker that wanted to go to Japan for 3 months, and the condition for approval

In my company, in practice it means around 4 weeks with standard accrual. Had a coworker that wanted to go to Japan for 3 months, and the condition for approval was that the other 2 months would be unpaid sabbatical. IIRC, he ended getting part time pay for a some of that time due to on-call duties. I took my vacations in chunks and went a bit over by a few days. Vacation approval is at the discretion of the manager, and mine is pretty lax about accrual, as long as work is getting done overall. I hear in some teams, people need to be told to take _more_ vacations than they do (workaholic younguns, I guess). We disable publishing to production during end-of-year holidays to minimize risks of outages (though of course you can break the glass in case something does break) I work at Uber, in San Francisco.